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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3493-1 xerces-c -- security update

Date Reported:

25 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

xerces-c

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 815907.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-0729.

More information:

Gustavo Grieco discovered that xerces-c, a validating XML parser library for C++, mishandles certain kinds of malformed input documents, resulting in buffer overflows during processing and error reporting. These flaws could lead to a denial of service in applications using the xerces-c library, or potentially, to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-3+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 3.1.1-5.1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xerces-c packages.